Why So Happy? slash Sad?/Ironshirt Waltz March

from Butchers Sleep Little - Songs for the Chalk Circle by The One and Only Matt Miller

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Grusha leaves the child on the doorstep of a couple. The couple take in the child.

The Ironshirts march and sing.

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Why so happy?
Why so gay?
You who turns away...

Because the child, with just a smile,
Has won himself his place.
Because Im done with the one I love.

Why so happy?
Why so sad?
You who cant look back...

Im sad because Im finally free
Of the little burden and his heartbeat.
Like one robbed, Im gone...

Oh sadly, one morning,
One morning in May,
I kissed my darling and rode far away.
Protect her, dear friends, until home from the war
I come riding, in triumph, alive on my horse.

WHEN I LIE IN MY GRAVE AND MY SWORD TURNS TO RUST,
MY DARLING SHALL BRING ME A HANDFUL OF DUST.
FOR THE FEET THAT SO GAILY RAN UP TO HER DOOR
AND THE ARMS THAT WENT ROUND HER SHALL PLEASE HER NO MORE.

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from Butchers Sleep Little - Songs for the Chalk Circle, released February 9, 2015

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